Pantheism

Pantheism
holds that God is in the world or, rather, God is the world. It stresses
the immanence of God in the world. There are several kinds of pantheism. The
Greek philosopher Parmenides is famous for explicating what is known as absolute
pantheism. This asserted that there was only one being in the universe and
everything else was non-being. Another ancient source, Plotinus, was believed to
be an exponent of emanational pantheism, in that
everything flows from God the way a flower unfolds from a seed. The most obvious
example of this kind of thought in the contemporary climate is Hinduism, a manifestational
pantheism; that all things are, in some sense, divine and to be venerated as
such.